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Roy Ubu

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  1. You are probably right, Daswulf. Kind of a matter of which a person thinks is easier, split and braid or bundle, forge weld, braid.
  2. It's a little like the fold out cross. It is a simple, elegant representation. Sawing and folding makes it extraordinary in terms of producing it. Take care all.
  3. I am becoming more persuaded that the top one is braided after looking at a lot of hair on Duckduckgo. Probably a four strand braid. But I don't think it is necessarily a bundle welded to the lower part because of the transition from strands to shaft (not sharp but rounded) although I guess it could be fullered round either way. That all means about 3/4 stock tapered, cut into four strands, each strand textured then braided. Four steps. Sounds easy. As for the bottom two, I'm looking for the welded, punched bead octopuus thread. Looks most likely for now.
  4. Thanks all for the input. Maybe the smith will show up so we can congratulate and pick his or her brain, see more good stuff. If not, more ideas are welcome.
  5. You may be right about the welds. That is not something I have done in terms of shaping. I like to think it's possible to handle everything with regular tooling but if that's the way it's done, I like the result. Still puzzling about the top one. Guess the best thing is to jump in.
  6. Didn't see a name or web site. I would certainly be happy to put my questions to him or her. I noticed the same, perhaps corroded, texture you point out. By hammer etc...I prefer not to work with chemicals.
  7. I was going down that road but a couple of factors turned me back. First, if it is a bundle it would be hard to taper evenly, with hammer anyway, second, you would still have the problem of getting very deep relief around the "suction cups". I am guessing it might be like pineapple, but punching the diamonds at their highest point at some stage of the process. No idea about the top one.
  8. You may have seen this on Pinterest. I try to copy what I like and I haven't experimented yet, but I am really stumped on the top twist, the next down looks like it could be done with pineapple steps and the third and fourth look like simple twists with maybe some kind of punch treatment on two edges, but I'm having a hard time imagining the punch. Or maybe all are some variation of pineapple steps. I sure would like to use them in a couple of projects. Thanks for ideas.
  9. My preference is not to have more to deal with than necessary. Get air under one end of the fuel and it goes well. Both ends elevated does not transfer many more Btu's to the thermal mass eg the masonry of the stove, so I figure, why get more elements involved?
  10. Greenhouse screen, closer counterweight. Half round stock from shoeing days.
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